PERL CGI Unicode programming hint

[Drewbert]

If you have any PERL CGI programs and ou're looking for a fast way to set their HTML charset output to UTF-8 from the default ISO-8859, it's real simple...

After creating the new CGI object...

my $q = CGI->new();

simply add...


$q->charset('UTF-8');

Once you have done that, the default charset placed in the header is changed for every page that object creates.

Saves having to arse around with header settings in multiple places in your CGI scrpt.

One warning though, you need a fairly recent CGI.pm perl module on your server.

If it doesn't work, download the latest CGI.pm

#cpan

cpan>install CGI

Easy as that.

[yanni]

It's all Greek to me :)

[thegenius1]

Its greek to me aswell but i will be sure to document this for future reference , thanks

[jose]

And in PHP utf8_encode() and utf8_decode()